Day Zero (The Zero Trilogy Book 1) by Summer Lane

Author:Summer Lane [Lane, Summer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: WB Publishing
Published: 2014-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

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“They’re all dead, Elle.”

Uncle stood in the doorway of the ranch house, tall and imposing. His scraggly gray hair hung limply to his shoulders. Rain drops slid down his wrinkled face. Elle sat on the floor, a book in her hands.

“Mom can’t be dead,” Elle stated. “She was supposed to wait for us.”

“I know. But she wasn’t there.”

“So she could still be alive, then.”

“My girl, your mother is gone, and so is your father and your brother.” Uncle took a step closer, and Elle was suddenly on her feet, drawing back. “Please, Elle. Listen to what I’m saying: they’re gone. You need to accept this. Life won’t get any easier until you do.”

“Life sucks,” Elle said, blinking back tears. “We’re living in hiding – people are dying all around us. There’s nothing left! It’s not going to get easier. Ever.”

Uncle’s eyes were red, as if he had been crying.

Elle remembered when the power had gone out, when everything had gone dark forever. She remembered the panic, the riots. The massacres and the whispers of a shadow army on the coastline. Her father and her brother, slipping out one night to find food. Her mother waiting at the window of their apartment in Beverly Hills, sitting there for three days. Sending Elle away with Uncle, into the hills, away from the city.

“She has to be there, somewhere,” Elle said.

“Hope is a good thing,” Uncle replied, “but in this case, accept the truth. Your family is dead, but you have us. You have your Aunt and I. You’re not alone.”

Elle threw her book into the fireplace. The flames consumed the pages, slowly eating away the words. She stared at it until it was a pile of charred, black debris. Uncle placed a hand on Elle’s shoulder. She shook it off.

Uncle was wrong. Mom had to be alive.

Johnny and Daddy were dead, but Mom…

She had to go back. She had to find her.

And Uncle couldn’t stop her.

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